CLAUDE OPUS (paraphrased):

in the 1950s Eisenhower/Kennedy/Johnson/Nixon used the fear of communists to trample over the rights of all Americans (COINTELPRO, loyalty oaths, blacklists)

in the 1940s FDR used the fear of Japanese spies to trample over the rights of all Americans (internment of 120,000 people)

in the 1910s Wilson used the fear of German sympathizers and anarchists to trample over the rights of all Americans (Espionage Act, Sedition Act, Palmer Raids)

in the 1860s Lincoln used the fear of Confederate sympathizers to trample over the rights of all Americans (suspended habeas corpus, jailed journalists)

in the 1850s various admins used the fear of slave rebellions to trample over the rights of all Americans (restricted speech, mail censorship, assembly bans)

in the 1830s Jackson used the fear of "savage" Indians to trample over the rights of Native Americans (forced removal)

in the 1798 Adams used the fear of French Jacobins to trample over the rights of all Americans (Alien and Sedition Acts - jailed people for criticizing the government)

in the 1760s the British colonial administration used the fear of smugglers and sedition to trample over the rights of all colonists (writs of assistance, Intolerable Acts, quartering soldiers, dissolving assemblies)

in the 1750s colonial administrations used the fear of French and Indian attacks to trample over the rights of all colonists (forced quartering, martial law, impressment)

in the 1690s the Massachusetts colonial administration used the fear of witches and the Devil to trample over the rights of all colonists (Salem trials—20 executed, hundreds accused, spectral evidence)

in the 1670s colonial administrations used the fear of Native attacks (King Philip's War) to trample over the rights of all colonists—including interning allied "Praying Indians" on islands where many died

in the 1630s the Massachusetts Bay administration used the fear of heretics and antinomians to trample over the rights of all colonists (banished Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Quakers; executed four Quakers)

in the 1610s the Virginia Company administration used the fear of starvation and Native attack to trample over the rights of all colonists (martial law under "Dale's Code"—execution for minor offenses, forced labor)